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Irak
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | Irak | Irak S.S. Co. Ltd. | |
| 1911 | Mandasor | T.& J. Brocklebank Ltd. | |
| 1913 | Belgia | Hamburg Amerika Line. | |
| 1915 | Huntstrick | F.C. Strick & Co. |
Fate
The steamship Huntstrick was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-39 west of Gibraltar, on June 8th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from London to Salonika with troops and stores.
Sixteen of the crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born Thomas Armstrong.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Abdul Muhammad; Bartenbach, A.; Booth, William Henry; Briant, E.; Browne, Samuel Augustus; Duncanson, Robert Mcgregor; Elliott, William Henry Irving; Newton, John Thomas; Poulakis, Antonios; Quade, Frank; Tanko, A.; Turner, Albert Victor; Walford, William; Witcomb, Ernest Adolphus; Yoshino, H.
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Hartlepool Crew Losses - First World War
